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January 10, 2025

January 10, 2025

This Week's Champ Chatter:

Happy New Year from Principal Bailey

Happy New Year from Principal Mullinax

Special Education Parent Meeting Monday Jan. 13th at 6PM!

ACCESS Testing Health & Safety Form Due Jan. 24, 2025!

Advanced Placement (AP) Informational Meeting Recording

Secondary (Grades 9-12) GCA Secretary of State Ambassadors

Attention GCA Secondary Grade Students: Money Talks is led by a moderator and panel of Georgia speakers from various financial sectors to educate students on practical money skills, including Budgeting and Saving, Investing, Maximizing Income, Credit and Loans, and Minimizing the Cost of College. In-person and online options are available. Check your GCA Gmail for registration information.

Write Score and Net Tutor

Students will be taking the WriteScore assessment during the week of February 3. To help your child prepare and feel confident, please encourage them to practice their writing skills. Supporting them with any writing tasks for their classes can be very helpful.

Additionally, NetTutor offers services to assist students in building their writing skills. With personalized help, students can improve their writing competency and boost their confidence. Thank you for your support in helping your child succeed! Reach out to your student's teacher if you need additional information.

Write Score Testing in Class

NetTutor Info

Counseling Corner

It's Time to Read

READBowl is a FREE global reading competition for PreK-12th grade aged teams around the globe compete to read for the most minutes. How do you earn minutes? READ!

You read it, it counts.

You listen to a book, it counts.

It’s a reading assignment your teacher gave you... guess what it counts.

All reading counts.

The first quarter begins Monday, January 13 at 8:00 am and ends on Sunday, January 19 at 11:59 pm. Submit your reading minutes once per week by midnight each Sunday using this Submission Form.

The ReadBowl runs through Sunday, February 9 at 11:59 pm. Complete the submission form each Sunday by midnight. Details on our school-age team's reading minutes will be posted in Champ Chatter.

Submission Form

Instructional Cycle 3 Information

GCA's Got Talent - Submit by Jan. 24th

National Geographic Society - Slingshot Challenge

The National Geographic Society PRESENTS THE SLINGSHOT CHALLENGE Submissions are due by February 7, 2025. JOIN THE CHALLENGE The National Geographic Society believes that changing the future of conservation begins with small steps: with great ideas that drive impact in YOUR community. We believe that together, our ideas and actions will add up to progress protecting our planet and improving our future. Submissions are due by February 7, 2025. Click here to watch a video & learn more. If you are interested in submitting for a chance to win $10,000, CLICK HERE!

Submission Flyer

Attention: Conditionally Enrolled Families

We want to inform you about our Conditional Enrollment Policy and your next steps to ensure all enrollment documents are on file for your student this academic year.

More information can be found by viewing our Health Documents Requirements and Vital Records Requirements.

View help videos below.

Enrollment & Records Team helpful videos

GCA PTSO Facebook Moderators Needed

Volunteers are needed to support GCA PTSO Facebook pages.

Would you like to volunteer and currently use social media?

The PTSO is looking for Facebook page moderators. Duties include ensuring members on the GCA Family internal page are following the member rules like being kind, and not selling merchandise. We would also like you to have engagement activities/polls/joke of the week. Items that would engage other GCA families who are members of the Regional Facebook Group. Be sure to select the option to be a Facebook page moderator

Facebook moderator formWant to see how the regions are divided, use this link to see the 12 Facebook page Regions by County https://www.gcaptso.org/regional-information